Talking about the Enlightenment
Presented by Anthony Burton.
Haydn Divertimento in F (HII20)
Haydn Sinfonietta,
Vienna/Manfred Huss
7.23 Josquin Pour souhaitter; Pater Noster/Ave Maria The King's Singers
7.34 Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto in C sharp minor
Geoffrey Tozer (piano) Bergen PO, conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
7.49 Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon septimi e octavi toni a 12; Sonata pian' e forte
London Brass/Philip Pickett
8.00 Mahler, orch Berio Hans und Grethe; Ich ging mit Lust durch einengrunen Wald; Fruhlingsmorgen;
Scheiden und Meiden;
Erinnerung Andreas Schmidt (baritone) Berlin RSO/Cord Garben
8.15 Svendsen String Octet in A
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
Bartok's Bluebeard's
Castle by Rodney Milnes. Stephen Dodgson reviews new releases of Baroque music, including a new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons from the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe.
10.15 Record Release
Leclair Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 10 No
Simon Standage (violin) Collegium Musicum 90
10.31 Mealli La Cesta, Op 3 No 2; La Castella, Op 3 No 4
Andrew Manze (violin)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord) Fred Jacobs (theorbo)
10.46 Vivaldi Flute
Concerto in G (RV435) Patrick Gallois (flute) Orpheus CO
10.55 Bach Violin Partita
No3inE(BWV1006) Viktoria Mullova (violin)
11.15 Reissues
Jonathan Swain has been listening to recent RCA reissues of Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bartok, Wagner and Strauss.
11.35 Strauss Burleske in D minor
Byron Janis (piano) Chicago Symphony
Orchestra/Fritz Reiner
Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury. Discs
(Revised 3.00pm)
In Flanders' Fields
Concluding their journey in search of medieval
Flanders, Christopher Page and Christopher Wilson visit St Salvator's Cathedral, the Church of Our Lady, and the crypt of St Donatian in Bruges, and the famous altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in Ghent. Producer Kate Bolton
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
Hank Wangford ruminates with Leslie Forbes on edible highs.
with Susan Tomes (piano) Janacek Mladi ; Concertino
Schubert Octet in F
Richard Osborne presents a nine-part series to celebrate the conductor's 80th birthday. 1:The Problem of How to Make Music.
This week his early conducting career is recalled, with reminiscences from Hugh Bean , Peter Diamand , Simon Rattle ,
Mstislav Rostropovich and Carlo Maria Giulini himself.
Beethoven Overture:
Egmont
Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpt) Petrassi Sonata da camera (Ist mvt) Gluck Iphigenie en
Tauride (Act 3 excerpt) Cherubini Dies Irae
(Requiem in C minor) Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
Producer Jeremy Hayes
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thorne. Discs
Presented by Ivan Hewett. What makes a good performance of a Viennese waltz? Also, a look at bad behaviour in opera houses and the symphonies of Benjamin Frankel. Producer Anthony Setters
The pianist Jean-Francois Heisser performs the six Escenas Romanticas by Granados. Discs
Gluck's opera to a text by Nicolas-Francois Guillard in a performance given at the Theatre Municipal, Lausanne
Sung in French
Theatre Municipal Opera Chorus
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Louis Langree
Acts 1 and 2
8.00 Iphigenia: Metamorphosis of a Myth
Sacrificed, transformed into a doe, stranded in a barbarian land - why was the myth of Iphigenia reinvented in the ancient world? Written and presented by Edith Hall, Lecturer in Classics at Reading University.
8.20 Acts 3 and 4
In Peter Doig 's pictures, nature is an unfriendly, often threatening, place, which he paints in a London studio from photographs and from memory, not directly from the land.
In conversation with critic
Adrian Searle , he talks about the wildness of nature he experienced in his Canadian childhood, and his adventurous evocation of it in paint. Producer Judith Bumpus
A concert including three British premieres given by the Arditti String Quartet in St Paul's Hall during last year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Kagel: String Quartet No 4
Birtwistle: Three Movements for string quartet
Mason: String Quartet No 2
(all UK premieres)
Ligeti: String Quartet No 2
Brian Morton talks to pianist Tim Richards and introduces a specially recorded set by his group Spirit Level. Plus music on disc from Paul Bley ,
Scott Hamilton and Paul Dunmall.
Producer Derek Drescher
